KennyTheKangaroo wrote:all this noise that about how flacco is average for the other 17 weeks of the season is silly as well. in 2008 big ben was

24th in passer efficiency21st in completion percentage17th in ypg14th in total yards passing17th in ypa 17 touchdowns. which happened to be one fewer than tyler thigpen.

which is practicially identical to flaccos production in 2012. so why are we sitting here crowing about how this guy is such a slug?

hes just like ben.

ben didn't deserve 20mil a season then, either. the top paid QB's (aside from peyton manning, who is both probably the best QB to ever play the game, and not signed for the same term) make between 9mil and 13 mil a season. flacco's deal is like someone giving Quick a 15mil/year contract because he had a really good playoffs with the kings last year.

i'm not sure what people are arguing here... is he worth that much? no. does it matter what I think or what anyone on this board thinks? surprisingly enough to some, no. your opinion on him doesn't matter. he's making bank, good for him.

KennyTheKangaroo wrote:As clint eastwood once wisely pointed out, deserves got nothin to do with it. if you are a quarterback that is good enough to win 10 playoff games in 5 or 6 seasons or whatever, and you are good enough to make the playoffs every year. and you happen to be in beast mode in the playoffs when your contract is due, then you get paid 20 million a year

Quarterbacks don't win games. Teams win games. Look at some of the playoff games where the Ravens won but Flacco played like crap. He gets credit for those? QB wins is as irrelevant as starting pitcher wins.

KennyTheKangaroo wrote:all this noise that about how flacco is average for the other 17 weeks of the season is silly as well. in 2008 big ben was

24th in passer efficiency21st in completion percentage17th in ypg14th in total yards passing17th in ypa 17 touchdowns. which happened to be one fewer than tyler thigpen.

which is practicially identical to flaccos production in 2012. so why are we sitting here crowing about how this guy is such a slug?

hes just like ben.

Because in 2007 BRoeth was 2nd in rating, 7th in completion percentage, 14th in yards, and 3rd in TDs. In 2009 BRoeth completed 67% of his passes, had over 4,000 yards and was 26/12 TD/INT. You compared Flacco's best season to BRoeth's 2nd worst professional season. Congrats. Flacco has been pretty much the same player all 5 of his seasons- completion %age between 57 and 63%, around 7 yards/attempt, QB rating between 87-92.

It might seem crazy to suggest that 18 other guys deserved more money than a quarterback who led his team into the playoffs. But let's break down the play of Flacco. Of 38 quarterbacks who attempted at least 175 passes, the Ravens QB had the 33rd (or sixth-worst) adjusted accuracy percentage (a stat that accounts for drops, spikes and throwaways), behind guys such as Blaine Gabbert, Nick Foles and Sam Bradford.

When Flacco was pressured, he had the 20th-best completion percentage, and when he would go deep (which he did on a league-high 17.3 percent of passing attempts), he was only 18th in adjusted accuracy percentage out of 33 quarterbacks who attempted at least 28 passes. So you can't blame the numbers on drops but rather on the horribly inconsistent play of Flacco, who would look like a star against the Raiders in Week 10 then stumble on both occasions when Baltimore faced Pittsburgh.

In part, the Ravens got to the postseason in spite of him, with his play on the field largely forgettable at times.